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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In Victorian England an orphaned boy goes to stay with his strange guardian in a desolate, moated manor house during a cold and snowy Christmas, where he soon realises that the house and its grounds harbor many secrets, dead and alive.
4) Moving house
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the process of moving to a new home, as the Sparks' family packs, moves, unpacks, and meets their new neighbors.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Annie loves the house she shares with her dad and her pet bunny, Snowball. She just wishes her house were pretty instead of plain. But with a little help from her cousin Henry (and, of course, Mudge and Snowball), and a lot of treasure from Henry's attic, Annie's wish comes true.
6) Two homes
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy named Alex enjoys the homes of both of his parents who live apart but love Alex very much.
Author
Series
Follow the line books volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Invites the reader to search different rooms of a house to find hidden objects.
10) Whose house?
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy imagines himself living in various animals' homes, then decides his own warm house and cozy bed are just right for him.
11) Slippers at home
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Slippers the puppy loves each of the four people who share his home.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Celerina the bunny moves into a new house, she doesn't realize that there was already a snail living there and that he is the "magic" that repairs anything she breaks, and even the house itself.
13) The second spy
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author I. B. Grumply gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
15) My house
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jim the cat leads a tour through his house before his owner, Jane, comes home and makes his dinner.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels. Poor Hermit Crab! He's outgrown his snug little shell and has to find a new home. And he does, with help from some friends who make the move less scary. Children facing change in their own lives will relate to Hermit Crab's story-and learn a lot about the fascinating world of marine life along the...
Author
Series
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Cocoa decides to explore the house, Cowgirl Kate has a hard time convincing him he must return to the barn.
19) Moving house
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Joey and Chloe and their family are getting ready to move, their house decides it wants to go too.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
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